NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh’s Baby?

Airs Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 9 p.m. on KPBSTV

Above: Charles and Anne Lindbergh. NOVA reopens one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time — the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby and the trial and execution that followed.

Monday, July 22, 2013

In the aftermath of his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh became the most famous human being on earth. When he and his wife, Anne, had a son, Charlie, the press dubbed him Little Lindy.

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Baby Lindbergh with a piece of his first birthday cake.

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Baby Lindbergh Wanted Poster, 1932.

On March 1, 1932, kidnappers snatched Little Lindy from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Negotiations stretched out for weeks, but Charlie never returned. His body was discovered not five miles from Hopewell.

Now, in "Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?," NOVA is reopening one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Lindbergh’s baby — and why.

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